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World Congress for International Women's Year
Title
World Congress for International Women's Year 1975, 1975.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical Description
online resource (video file 0:46:58) : Sound , Colour.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Archive Reference: N-508251.
Production Company: DEFA.
Reproduction of: GDR (German Democratic Republic), 1975. 16mm Comb col pos.
Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
A feature on the World Congress of Women, which was held in East Berlin in 1975 as part of International Women's Year. 2,000 delegates from countries across the globe attend the World Congress of Women for five days in October 1975. Valentina Tereshkova gives a speech at the beginning of the Congress with well-wishes from state leaders such as Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Archbishop Makarios III. Freda Brown, the Australian political activist also gives a speech outlining the keys aims of the Congress. The delegates take a tour of East Germany, visiting Second World War memorials and Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Variant and related titles
Socialism in film: the cold war and international propaganda. Module II, Newsreels & cinemagazines.
Format
Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2019
Series
GDR Magazine
Newsreels & Cinemagazines
Credits
Production Company: DEFA.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
DEFA, production company.
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